Seriousness What's out in your garden now .... - Page 96

Sweetpea · 01-27-2011, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

January is the best time for thinking .... planning .....

Don't forget trimming trees! January is generally the best time for fruit trees. Both our apple and our pear have been trimmed last week. After 4 years, the apple tree is finally getting a shape again (the previous owner was a "grow and let grow" type, I doubt he ever trimmed anything...)

We need to cut down one more tree (or, rather cut the top out).

GeoffC · 01-27-2011, 06:10 AM

Still rather too cold for me to be outside for anything like tree trimming - and we've a holly tree that is in dire need of a good talking to!

I cut back a small Ash tree last year, it's close to the house and I don't want to get rid of it, but to keep it under control. So it's not quite coppiced, but not quite pollarded, but there were many 3-6 foot lengths of stem that I then pushed into the ground, and I'm hopeful that some will have taken in situ - some look dead, but then many don't - and as the ash is a slow starter it is going to be an interesting surprise to see how many new trees I may have in a couple of months, or so.... :rubshandswithglee:

kennyc · 01-27-2011, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

January is the best time for thinking .... planning .....

You're plan(t)ing thoughts in your garden......oooh! Wonderful!!!

GeoffC · 01-27-2011, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

You're plan(t)ing thoughts in your garden......oooh! Wonderful!!!

most definitely.

last year, and the one before, were kinda wasted with time spent putting ponds in, and then getting an injury - so this year it's a weed-killing spree and let the flowers bloom - and damn the cats if they scratch up anything they should not .... and....and..... and....

WT Sharpe · 01-27-2011, 08:29 PM

Maybe a wine garden this year.

I'm thinking of growing dandelions.

kennyc · 01-27-2011, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Maybe a wine garden this year.

I'm thinking of growing dandelions.

I'd vote for that!

Dang crows anyway!

And the silly Norton wouldn't even chase 'em off.

Sweetpea · 01-28-2011, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

and damn the cats if they scratch up anything they should not .... and....and..... and....

Good luck with that!

Though, chicken wire helps. Plants won't notice it, but cats don't like it (as they can't dig in it)

I'm hoping we'll have some kind lawn this year we can walk on... Last year, part of it was dug up for the sewage pipe replacement, and last week we had a frisky horse trying to plow it...

GeoffC · 01-28-2011, 06:40 AM

Have noticed the first snowdrops just coming into bloom - not quite open - but they won't be long.
Yellow Primula are already flowering.
Three dandelion flowers have already been removed from the plant....good suggestion Tom, perhaps I'll save a few for dandelion wine....

desertblues · 01-28-2011, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Have noticed the first snowdrops just coming into bloom - not quite open - but they won't be long.
Yellow Primula are already flowering.
Three dandelion flowers have already been removed from the plant....good suggestion Tom, perhaps I'll save a few for dandelion wine....

With this cold, the only live things in my garden are the birds at their feeding table: and a very foolish hopeful cat, freezing her b...t off while waiting behind the hedge; for the birds to drop down.

WT Sharpe · 01-29-2011, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Have noticed the first snowdrops just coming into bloom - not quite open - but they won't be long.
Yellow Primula are already flowering.
Three dandelion flowers have already been removed from the plant....good suggestion Tom, perhaps I'll save a few for dandelion wine....

Thanks. I seem to have a green thumb when it comes to growing dandelions.

FlorenceArt · 02-13-2011, 04:24 PM

Something happened while I was away to my windowsill "lawn" (actually weeds that I sowed from seeds found in the street). When I left it was green and luxuriant, now it's all wilted and blackened. Frost, I suppose. But the funny thing is that in the planter right next to it, the rocket I sowed at the end of last summer has started sprouting, along with some other random stuff and -maybe, though probably not because it doesn't smell like it- tarragon.

I brought one of the planters inside today and sowed cherry tomato seeds. I didn't remove the old soil but only put some new one on top, I hope that will be enough to nourish them (this planter already had cherry tomatoes last year). I should probably put more fertilizer this year. Unless, of course, I forget again

FlorenceArt · 02-27-2011, 12:25 PM

New planter and plants. I should have read the label more carefully in the shop, now I'm not so sure they are fitting for a balcony. The label says they are good in "mild climates" and grow to 2-4 meters. I'm going to need a bigger planter!!!

kennyc · 02-27-2011, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

New planter and plants. I should have read the label more carefully in the shop, now I'm not so sure they are fitting for a balcony. The label says they are good in "mild climates" and grow to 2-4 meters. I'm going to need a bigger planter!!!

Well you could put some boards around the balcony, fill it with planting soil and have a "real" garden.

GeoffC · 02-27-2011, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

New planter and plants. I should have read the label more carefully in the shop, now I'm not so sure they are fitting for a balcony. The label says they are good in "mild climates" and grow to 2-4 meters. I'm going to need a bigger planter!!!

- you'll not be needing shutters on those windows - will make a privacy screen - until some birds start nesting within .....

GeoffC · 02-27-2011, 12:45 PM

snowdrops continue to blossom, now joined by a small number of crocus here and there. daffodils showing their leaves with some flower buds also developing (I ken I'm a few weeks behind them lot south of the border!!!)

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01-27-2011, 06:10 AM	#1427
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Still rather too cold for me to be outside for anything like tree trimming - and we've a holly tree that is in dire need of a good talking to! I cut back a small Ash tree last year, it's close to the house and I don't want to get rid of it, but to keep it under control. So it's not quite coppiced, but not quite pollarded, but there were many 3-6 foot lengths of stem that I then pushed into the ground, and I'm hopeful that some will have taken in situ - some look dead, but then many don't - and as the ash is a slow starter it is going to be an interesting surprise to see how many new trees I may have in a couple of months, or so.... :rubshandswithglee:

01-27-2011, 08:29 PM	#1430
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Maybe a wine garden this year. I'm thinking of growing dandelions.

01-28-2011, 06:40 AM	#1433
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Have noticed the first snowdrops just coming into bloom - not quite open - but they won't be long. Yellow Primula are already flowering. Three dandelion flowers have already been removed from the plant....good suggestion Tom, perhaps I'll save a few for dandelion wine....

02-13-2011, 04:24 PM	#1436
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	Something happened while I was away to my windowsill "lawn" (actually weeds that I sowed from seeds found in the street). When I left it was green and luxuriant, now it's all wilted and blackened. Frost, I suppose. But the funny thing is that in the planter right next to it, the rocket I sowed at the end of last summer has started sprouting, along with some other random stuff and -maybe, though probably not because it doesn't smell like it- tarragon. I brought one of the planters inside today and sowed cherry tomato seeds. I didn't remove the old soil but only put some new one on top, I hope that will be enough to nourish them (this planter already had cherry tomatoes last year). I should probably put more fertilizer this year. Unless, of course, I forget again

02-27-2011, 12:45 PM	#1440
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	snowdrops continue to blossom, now joined by a small number of crocus here and there. daffodils showing their leaves with some flower buds also developing (I ken I'm a few weeks behind them lot south of the border!!!)

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